bionerd23 | happy radioactive new year with radium rockets, radon fireworks & gamma spectroscopy! @bionerd23 | Uploaded January 2015 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
yep, i definitely managed to collect some radioactive material from the air outdoors on new year's eve!
but what was it? are firecrackers spreading radioactive material?
we shall debunk the myths and put things into perspective. =)
more info, including the non-radioactive chemicals that may produce issues associated with fireworks (just click on the PDF link): iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/4/3/034006
yep, i definitely managed to collect some radioactive material from the air outdoors on new year's eve!
but what was it? are firecrackers spreading radioactive material?
we shall debunk the myths and put things into perspective. =)
more info, including the non-radioactive chemicals that may produce issues associated with fireworks (just click on the PDF link): iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/4/3/034006
![[UNEDITED] mouth cancer radiation therapy / clinical linear accelerator](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PRq6DYg1MFk/hqdefault.jpg "[UNEDITED] mouth cancer radiation therapy / clinical linear accelerator
the video of a mouth cancer patient being irradiated - with the original sounds. i only turned up the sharpness a bit so you could see the highly energetic photons striking the camera CCD a bit better. notice how the cams microphone is disturbed by the rays, too.
for more details not only about this very radiation treatment and the isodose chart, but also about the story in general, see my flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionerd/sets/72157622824173136/")
